If your business offers Plant Protection Products (PPPs) for sale, it is a legal requirement to register your premises with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine (DAFM) and have a registered Pesticide Distributor (PD) available at all times at the point of sale.
The PD must ensure that adequate information is provided to customers as regards pesticide label/use in order to mitigate against any potential operator, bystander or environmental risks.
important role in providing information to customers as regards pesticide use, safety and protection of the environment.
1.1 Professional Use or Amateur Use PPPs
PPPs are categorised as either Professional Use or non-Professional/Amateur Use products. This categorisation is displayed on the approved product label. Professional use PPPs are products that can only be used by Professional Users (PUs) who are trained and registered with DAFM. Non-Professional/Amateur use PPPs may be used in a home garden situation. There are no current requirements for amateur users to be trained or registered with DAFM.
The status of all registered products may be checked at:
1.2 Training & Registration
PD Training for Amateur and Professional PPPs
In order to register with DAFM as a PD of professional PPP’s, you must first be appropriately trained and have successfully completed the FETAC Level 5 Handling and Distribution of Pesticides (Code 5N2466) or equivalent.
Once the training is completed registration with DAFM is required, registration is available from the DAFM website.
www.pcs.agriculture.gov.ie/sud/pesticidedistributors/
To maintain registration, trained PDs of professional use PPP’s will be required to maintain Continuous Professional Education (CPE).
PD training for Amateur PPPs only
If your store is only involved in the sale of amateur products, you can become trained as a PD and register with DAFM by completing an online course, which is available from IASIS using the following link:
www.iasis.ie/NPPD/NPPDinfo.aspx
1.3 Record Keeping
As a registered store the following records must be kept:
Purchases of PPP’s (professional or amateur),
i.e., GOODS IN
Record Required;
- Name and address of the supplier;
- Name of the product;
- PCS No. of the product;
- Pack size;
- Quantity purchased / returned;
- Date purchased / returned;
- Batch numbers.
Sales of professional use PPP’s
i.e., GOODS OUT
Records Required;
Name and address of each individual purchasing PPPs
or the waste disposal company;
- Professional User No. (PU No.) or equivalent of the purchaser of professional product (if this cannot
be provided, the sale should be declined); - Name of the product(s);
- Pack size(s);
- Volume(s) supplied;
- Date purchased or disposed of.
The European Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive (SUD) (Directive 2009/128/EC), establishes a framework to achieve the sustainable use of pesticides by reducing the risks and impacts of pesticide use on human health and the environment. It introduces requirements relating to advice, sale, supply and the use of PPPs. This Directive was enacted into Irish Law by Statutory Instrument No. 155 of 2012. Distributors are defined as anyone who makes a PPP available on the market.
Further information is available from the Pesticide Controls Division, DAFM Laboratories Backweston Campus, Celbridge | Co. Kildare,
Email: pesticideregisters@agriculture.gov.ie Web: www.pcs.agriculture.gov.ie
